Her mind was the same perfect instrument, piercing to the very heart and marrow of the matter; alwaysseizing the essential idea or principle. The same exactnesand rapidity of operation, pervading as it did her sensitive as well as her mental faculties, would, with her gifts of feeling and imagination, have fitted her to be a consummate artist, as her fiery and tender soul and her vigorous eloquence would certainly have made her a great orator, and her profond knowledge of human nature and discernment and sagacity in pratical life, would, in times in which a carriere was open to women, have made her eminent among the rulers of mandkind. Her intellectual gifts did but minister to a moral character at once the noblest and the best balanced which I have ever met with in life.
J. S. Mill [about his wife], in J.S.Mill Autobiography
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